Editing Max Fleischer (section)

==Early life==
Majer Fleischer was born July 19, 1883,{{sfn|Cabarga|1988|page=10}}{{sfn|Scivally|2008|page=24}}{{sfn|Horn|Marschall|1983|page=234}}{{sfn|Bendazzi|2016|page=44}}{{sfn|Smith|1998|page=97}}{{Efn|Fleischer biographer Ray Pointer gives the alternative date of July 18, 1883.{{sfn|Pointer|2017|page=7}} Film historians [[Maurice Horn]] and Richard Marschall point out that, although dates as varied as 1883, 1884, 1885, and others have been given, the correct and verified date is 1883.{{sfn|Horn|Marschall|1983|page=234}}}} to a [[Jewish]] family in [[Kraków]]<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://gewi.uni-graz.at/~blimp/full_text/langer/langer.html |title=Out of the Inkwell. Die Zeichentrickfilme von Max und Dave Fleischer |access-date=March 11, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050111080435/http://gewi.uni-graz.at/~blimp/full_text/langer/langer.html |archive-date=January 11, 2005 |first1=Mark |last1=Langer |magazine=Blimp Film Magazine |issue=26 }}</ref> (then in the [[Austrian Partition]] of the [[Austria-Hungary|'''Austro-Hungarian Empire''']]). He was the second of six children of a [[tailor]] from [[Dąbrowa Tarnowska]],{{sfn|Pointer|2017|page=7}} Aaron Fleischer, who later changed his name to ''William'' in the United States, and Malka "Amelia" Pałasz.{{sfn|Pointer|2017|page=7}}<ref name="jewishcurrents.org">{{cite web|url=http://jewishcurrents.org/max-fleischer-the-psychedelic-animator/ |first1= Debbie |last1=Burke |website=Jewish Currents |title=Max Fleischer, the Psychedelic Animator|date=May 13, 2017|access-date=October 5, 2017}}</ref>{{sfn|Fleischer|2011|page=2}} His family emigrated to the United States in March 1887, settling in New York City, where he attended public school. During his early formative years, he enjoyed a middle-class lifestyle, the result of his father's success as an exclusive tailor to high society clients. This changed drastically after his father lost his business ten years later. His teens were spent in [[Brownsville, Brooklyn|Brownsville]], a poor Jewish neighborhood in [[Brooklyn]]. He continued his education at evening high school. He received commercial art training at [[Cooper Union]] and formal art instruction at the [[Art Students League of New York]], studying under [[George Bridgman]]. He also attended the Mechanics and Tradesman's School in midtown [[Manhattan]].

Fleischer began his career at ''[[Brooklyn Eagle|The Brooklyn Daily Eagle]]''. Beginning as an errand boy, he advanced to photographer, photoengraver, and eventually, staff cartoonist. At first, he drew single-panel editorial cartoons, but then graduated to the full strips "Little Algie" and "S.K. Sposher, the Camera Fiend". These satirical strips reflected his life in Brownsville and his fascination with technology and photography, respectively—both displaying his sense of irony and fatalism. It was during this period he met newspaper cartoonist and early animator, [[John Randolph Bray]], who would later give him his start in the animation field.

On December 25, 1905, Fleischer married his childhood sweetheart, Ethel (Essie) Goldstein. On the recommendation of Bray, Fleischer was hired as a technical illustrator for the Electro-Light Engraving Company in Boston. In 1909 he moved to [[Syracuse, New York]], working as a catalog illustrator for the Crouse-Hinds Company, and a year later returned to New York as art editor for ''[[Popular Science]]'' magazine under editor [[Waldemar Kaempffert]].